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Adherent and invasive Escherichia coli are associated with persistent bovine mastitis.
Veterinary microbiology - 10 Sept 2006
Dogan Belgin, Klaessig S, Rishniw M, Almeida R A, Oliver S P, Simpson K, Schukken Y H
Abstract excerpt
Bovine mastitis caused by Escherichia coli has traditionally been viewed as a transient infection. However, E. coli can also cause clonal persistent intramammary infection (IMI) in dairy cows. In this study, we explored the possibility that E. coli strains associated with persistent IMI are better able to adhere to, invade, survive and replicate in cultured mammary epithelial cells (MAC-T) than transient strains,...
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